All posts by Todd Spangler

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman have successfully sold Hollywood on their ambitious plans to create a kind of next-generation HBO or Netflix — with bite-size original programming designed for smartphones. Now the question is whether their “NewTV” venture will deliver something consumers will actually pay for. WndrCo, the holding company Katzenberg co-founded, announced that it […]

Apple has taken down all episodes of five of Infowars’ six podcast series that had been available on iTunes, citing violations of its hate-speech rules. It’s the latest move by a big digital-media platform to stop distributing the right-wing conspiracy website’s content, which has been a high-profile test case of how Silicon Valley is grappling […]

It’s the end of the road for Musical.ly, the short-form video app that grew to more than 100 million active monthly users since its 2014 launch — and spawned its own digital stars and passionate creator community. On Thursday (Aug. 2), the Musical.ly app will be shutting down. Users will be migrated to TikTok, a […]

The National Football League has snapped the ball again to Snapchat, extending its content partnership with Snap for the 2018 and 2019 seasons — with a brand-new Sunday gameday experience starting this year. The NFL’s new “Sunday Publisher Story” will deliver news and highlights of games to Snapchat users during the season, with updates at […]

Chance the Rapper is now a local-media mogul. He announced the deal to buy Chicagoist, a local news site covering the Windy City, in one of his four new tracks released at midnight ET Wednesday. In the song, “I Might Need Security,” he explains why. “I bought the Chicagoist just to run you racist bitches […]

Rooster Teeth’s Western anime series “gen:Lock” has added Dakota Fanning and noted anime voice actor Kōichi Yamadera to the cast. The duo join Michael B. Jordan, who as previously announced will voice protagonist rebel pilot Julian Chase in “gen:Lock.” In the series, Earth’s last free society is on the losing side of a global war […]

Netflix no longer wants to share your opinions about TV shows or movies with the rest of the world. The streaming giant is phasing out user-submitted reviews over the next two months. As first reported by CNET, Netflix will stop accepting user reviews as of July 30. Then, by mid-August, it will delete all reviews customers […]

Sonos filed for an initial public offering to raise up to $100 million, as the connected-speaker company looks to challenge industry giants like Amazon, Google and Apple. Per Sonos’s S-1 filing Friday, As of March 31, 2018, Sonos said it had more than 19 million registered speaker products in 6.9 million households globally. Sonos reported […]

Go90 is officially being eighty-sixed. Verizon’s Go90 free, ad-supported mobile video service — launched nearly three years ago — will cease on July 31. The Go90 app, stocked with a mix of short-form original entertainment, live sports, and licensed TV shows, was never able to attract any kind of sizable audience and as a result […]

Sling TV, the original “skinny bundle” internet service that touts itself as an affordable, no-hassle alternative to traditional cable and satellite TV, is raising the price of its baseline package featuring Disney and ESPN networks by 25%. It’s the kind of rate hike the pay-TV biz has foisted on consumers for years — and one […]

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